Pipeline Inspection Using smart Condition Assessment Tools
Advanced Engineering Solutions provide pipeline inspections and condition assessments to the utilities and pipeline operators.
Listed below are our smartCAT™ range of magnetic flux leakage and radar tools along with an insight to the Condition Assessment Process using custom in-house software by experienced qualified engineers.
smartCAT™
smartCAT™ inspects large diameter pipelines for internal and external defects simultaneously.
smartCAT™ is indexed around the full circumference and its position referenced to an on-board azimuth
Product flow is not interrupted with no down time involved.
Data is analysed on-site to allow immediate decisions and action to be made.
smartCAT™ 360
smartCAT™ 360 is used to inspect pipelines of between 3 inch (75mm) and 12 inch (300mm).
Pipes can be inspected in long continuous runs around the full circumference where there are no major obstacles.
Product flow is not interrupted with no down time involved during the pipeline inspection.
Defect information is transferred by bluetooth and internet to AESL servers for further critical analysis.
smartCAT™ Hybrid
smartCAT™ Hybrid can be diver operated or mounted as an ROV attachment.
Data from the inspection tool can be transmitted directly via a 50m umbilical cable for pipe surface defect analysis and live display on a lap top computer
Full pipeline condition assessment and performance predictions are carried out at AESL.
Radar - Ground Penetrating
Advanced Engineering Solutions Ltd (AESL) operates a commercial ground penetrating radar (GPR) system for locating utilities and buried pipelines.
The system is a reliable method to locate subsurface targets prior to digging, trenching, conducting site assessments or pipeline inspection.
Concrete pipe inspections: the system can be used to locate re-bars in reinforced concrete pipes and defects within the pipe itself.
Condition Assessment
Condition Assessment Process uses the short length pipeline inspection data from the smartCAT™ magnetic inspection tools to predict:Coating Condition from a matrix assessment of the coating in the short length.
Leakage from the un-inspected lengths of pipeline, due to through wall pitting.
Structural Performance predictions are based on an analysis of the pipeline deterioration and the maximum applied loading regimes.
